Documents & Reports
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Public and private sector approaches to improving pharmaceutical quality in Bangladesh (English)
Low-cost high-quality drugs benefit society and improve pharmaceutical company's competitive edge. This study presents the issues that must be considered to achieve these common objectives in Bangladesh...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 68357 Document Date: August 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bumpas,Janet,Kostermans,Cornelis P.,Nair,Dinesh M.
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The Indian pharmaceutical sector : issues and options for health sector reform (English)
This report assesses the pharmaceutical sector in India, particularly focusing on four key issues related to the production, procurement, and distribution of drugs in India: a) availability, b) affordability;...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP437 Document Date: September 30, 2002 Author: Govindaraj, Ramesh,Chellaraj, Gnanaraj
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Gender dimensions of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean : Dimensiones de genero del consumo de alcohol y problemas afines en America Latina y el Caribe (Spanish)
The report examines the gender dimensions of alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. It finds that alcohol use is one of the major causes of the...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP435 Document Date: May 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Claeson,Mariam,Correia,Maria C.,Pyne,Hnin Hnin
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Gender dimensions of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean : Dimensiones de genero del consumo de alcohol y problemas afines en America Latina y el Caribe (Spanish)
The report examines the gender dimensions of alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. It finds that alcohol use is one of the major causes of the...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP433 Document Date: May 1, 2002 Author: Hnin Hnin Pyne,Claeson, Mariam,Correia, Maria
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Telecommunications and information services for the poor - toward a strategy for universal access (English)
Access to information, and communications technologies has become crucial to a sustainable agenda of economic development, and poverty reduction, and yet access remains concentrated in a few regions and...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP432 Document Date: April 30, 2002 Author: Navas-Sabater, Juan,Dymond, Andrew,Juntunen, Nii
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The environmental implications of privatization : lessons for developing countries (English)
Governments worldwide have increasingly recognized the economic potential and fiscal advantages of privatization. What is less well recognized is that, under the right conditions, privatization can also...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP426 Document Date: April 30, 2002 Author: Lovei, Magda,Gentry, Bradford S.
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Electronic finance - a new approach to financial sector development ? (English)
In recent years, electronic finance, especially online banking, and brokerage services, has reshaped the financial landscape. This paper reviews these developments, and analyzes their implications for...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP431 Document Date: March 31, 2002 Author: Claessens, Stijn,Glaessner,Thomas C.,Klingebiel,Daniela M. H.
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Gender dimensions of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean (English)
The report examines the gender dimensions of alcohol consumption, and alcohol-related problems in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region. It finds that alcohol use is one of the major causes of the...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP435 Document Date: March 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Claeson,Mariam,Correia,Maria C.,Pyne,Hnin Hnin
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Closing the gap in access to rural communications - Chile 1995 - 2002 (English)
The study documents, and reviews the Chilean experience in rural telecommunications, by focusing on the principles, practical organization, basic design, and outstanding issues for extension of a more...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP430 Document Date: February 28, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Wellenius,Bjorn
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Structural adjustment in the transition - case studies from Albania, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyz Republic, and Moldova (English)
The study reviews the performance of four transition countries - Albania, Azerbaijan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Moldova - in the areas of private, and financial sector development, identifying both their...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP429 Document Date: January 31, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Siegelbaum, Paul J.,Sherif, Khaled,Borish, Micha
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Managing the real and fiscal effects of banking crises (English)
The study provides two recent analyses, spurred by the recent East Asian crisis, of government responses to financial distress, and, also presents a comprehensive database on systemic, and borderline banking...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP428 Document Date: January 31, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Klingbiel, Daniela,Laeven, Luc [editors],Claesen
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Unleashing Russia's business potential - lessons from the regions for building market institutions (Russian)
This analyzes, based on more than seventy company case studies across 13 Russian regions during the spring, summer, and fall of 2000, and the summer of 2001, examines four key issues that Russian firms...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP434 Document Date: January 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Broadman, Harry G. [editor],Dutz, Mark,Vagliasin
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Unleashing Russia's business potential - lessons from the regions for building market institutions (English)
This analyzes, based on more than seventy company case studies across 13 Russian regions during the spring, summer, and fall of 2000, and the summer of 2001, examines four key issues that Russian firms...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP434 Document Date: January 1, 2002 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Broadman, Harry G. [editor],Dutz, Mark,Vagliasin
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Trade and transport facilitation : a toolkit for audit, analysis, and remedial action (English)
This document is an expanded version of the paper published in 2000 under the title "Trade and Transport Facilitation: An Audit Methodology." It seeks to improve the effectiveness of diagnosis and corrective...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP427 Document Date: December 31, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Raven,John A.
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Facets of globalization : international and local dimensions of development (English)
The chapters in this volume underscore the transformative role of globalization and urbanization, and show the interplay between these forces. Trade reform and liberalized foreign investment regimess have...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP415 Document Date: October 31, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Yusuf, Shahid,Evenett, Simon,Weiping Wu [editors
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Agricultural trade liberalization in a new trade round - perspectives of developing countries and transition economies (English)
This discussion paper contains seven studies, designed to a) review, and assess the impact of the implementation of the Uruguay Round (UR) Agreement on Agriculture, and, b) to analyze the key issues, interests...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP418 Document Date: September 30, 2001 Author: Ingco,Merlinda Dador,Winters, L. Alan [editors],Oyejide,Titiloye Ademola,Athukorala, Prema-chandra,Bale,Malcolm D.,Paz Cafferata,Julio C.,Valdes,Alberto,Kazlauskiene, Natalija,Meyers,William H.,Tangermann,Stefan,Roberts, Ivan,Podbury, Troy,Andrews, Neil,Fischer,Brian
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Environmental health : bridging the gaps (English)
This discussion paper: a) proposes a new approach of targeted collaboration among different sectors; b) devises new tools or enhances existing ones to facilitate the contributions of different sectors...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP422 Document Date: May 31, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Listorti, James A.,Doumani, Fadi M.
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Farm debt in the CIS - a multi-country study of the major causes and proposed solutions (English)
The objective of this study is to support the farm privatization and restructuring process in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) by presenting a wide range of strategic and tactical options that...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP424 Document Date: May 31, 2001 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Csaki, Csaba,Lerman, Zvi,Sotnikov, Sergey
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Participation in project preparation - lessons from World Bank-assisted projects in India (English)
The study assesses the extent to which the India program, is meeting the Bank's objective of mainstreaming participatory approaches, in project preparation, and design. From a variety of social, and natural...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP423 Document Date: May 31, 2001 Author: Vedeld,Trond
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Fostering competition in China's power markets (English)
This report proposes a strategy for developing competitive pool markets in China's power sector and for increasing energy trade between competitive pool markets areas. A three-stage approach is offered...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: WDP416 Document Date: March 31, 2001 Author: Berrah,Noureddine,Lamech,Ranjit J.,Zhao,Jianping